Constituency
138. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1987
WB-DUM-DUM
CPM 61.2%won by 22.9%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.5% to 22.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,21,285
Margin
27,776
22.90%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.6%
- CPM share
- 66.2% → 61.2%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —